When the world shut down for the pandemic, Jess Williamson got to work – on herself and on her music. On the personal side, she recovered from the breakup of a long-term relationship, started a new one and re-oriented herself in the world. 

On the music side, she found herself unable to tour behind her May 2020 album, Sorceress. So she hunkered down and began writing. The first product was a top three best album of 2022 – I Walked With You a Ways, teaming with Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield as the duo Plains.